Pulpshow is a live art performance devised and performed by Leah Shelton that critiques Australian popular culture, histories and national identity. Straddling cabaret, burlesque and performance art, the work is at times ridiculous, dark and absurd. Pulpshow was developed as a response to the growing support for a nationalistic, mono-cultural world-view, both within Australia and globally. It contains stories that are at once foreign and familiar and that speak to cultural difference and shared understandings. A performative, sonic and visual mashup of Australiana, the production team explored the use of speculative fiction and bricolage in their approach to collaborative practice and conceptual development which significantly influenced its final presentation. Pulpshow was first staged as part of the Wonderland Festival 2015 at Brisbane Powerhouse. Supported by an Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund Artist Development Grant, it was selected for the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival and awarded the 2016 John Chataway Innovation Award (Adelaide Fringe), The Adelaide Advertisers Hitlist Best Cabaret Award and received favourable print and radio press reviews. Pulpshow underwent significant conceptual, performative and research re-development in early 2016 to be later staged as Terror Australis.